Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

  Ice T
  • Last
  • Tyranny
  • Bear

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Research
  • Reaction

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Care
  • Listening

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Attention

• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Hope
  • Look
  • Difficult

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Religious

• Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mind
  • Species
  • Possess

• I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could do this?" Those people may not be showing the moxie, but that's because they don't even know what's possible. So I want to jump in and say, "Actually, your story is amazing, and I believe in you.".

  

  Faith Adiele
  • American
  • Amazing
  • Stories

• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

  

  Stephen Covey
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